Page tags

Add a new page

The legend of the first practitioner of the Broken Blade style was said to have been a powerful swordsman who in the middle of a life or death duel with an old enemy found his sword broken by his opponent and had to toss it aside. Disheartened by his lack of weapons, he quickly realized that his years of training, exercise, and conditioning had made his body a weapon all on its own. Using only his fists and his nerve, this long-forgotten swordsman became the first to develop these techniques, and he passed on his experience to others. Disciples of the Broken Blade teach these methods in monasteries, to cloistered warrior-monks who learn to operate without the use of traditional weapons of combat. Others learn from parents or individual mentors, haphazard or otherwise, and scrap their way through as it suits them.

While in this stance, count as one size category larger when calculating CMB and CMD for grapple, bull rush, and overrun attempts, and add primary initiator attribute modifier to CMB and CMD for grapple, bull rush, and overrun attempts and resistance.

While in this stance, the character may make one dirty trick attempt per round as a swift action without provoking attacks of opportunity, and he gains a +2 bonus to his CMD to resist dirty tricks and feint attempts.

Level 9 Maneuvers

The character makes a full attack as a standard action and each strike inflicts an additional 4d6 points of damage that ignores damage reduction. Each successful hit increases Fortitude save DC to resist being reduced to:1 hit points.